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Today, 28th June 2017, the most powerful media company in the world, Google, just blew up their news feed.

They instituted a new format that makes mincemeat of any sensible way to digest the world’s latest news events.

From today onward, going to Google’s News webpage will lead readers into an oubliette of oblivion.

Want to be directed to “Highly Cited” stories from The Washington Examiner? That’s where Google will take you. No matter that The Examiner is a nether region right-wing paper-hanger.

Google wants to direct you over to The Washington Times to a “Highly Cited” story on Sarah Palin. Oh, you mean THAT Washington Times that runs in the gutter to promote the most despicable conspiracy theories Vlad Putin is pushing over our borders.

How about The Financial Times? The Japan Times? Associated Press? Mother Jones?

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A Fake News World. Have we have entered that realm?

Google, owned by Alphabet, the world’s second largest internet multi-national conglomerate, has no interest in the truth. It only has interest in profits.

Fox News is still the most viewed news channel in America.

America, without any leaders on the national level, is rapidly sliding toward Third World status.

And media corporations like Google/Alphabet are more than happy to provide the water slide.

Today US President Donald J. Trump attempted to grab attention from the chaos surrounding his administration by telling the news media he would soon make an announcement about so-called “tapes” from the Oval Office.

Donald J. Trump, the elected President of these United States of America, has become unhinged.

The tighter the net grows around Donald Trump, the more dangerous he gets. The tighter the net gets around Donald Trump, the more he will feel compelled to act out.

And the more Trump feels compelled to act out, the more dangerous it is for America – Domestically and internationally.

It was clear to all during the long presidential campaign that Candidate Trump was willing to outright lie to millions of his followers who would eat up his fabrications while those whose job is to keep check on the balance of powers compiled longer and longer lists of Trump’s fabrications and business malfeasance’s.

Now, as Trump’s House of Cards is tumbling down around him, now, America needs its real leaders to stand tall and do the right thing.

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Most Republican members of Congress whose job it is to guard America’s position of respect not only in the world but in the eyes of its own citizens have grossly abdicated their responsibility for no other reason than to coddle that creepy, hardcore 30% Trumpian base, a base that, when push comes to shove, would prefer to see this nation burned to the ground than ever give up their “leader” Trump to, well, what the rest of the world considers reason and logic and good governance.

This supposed 30% base is the sole reason we hear ridiculous defenses and excuses of Trump’s inexcusable behavior.

Here, we would like to specifically point out Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and second in line to The President of the United States of America.

Ryan, after Comey’s blistering testimony yesterday, gave what can only be the most bizarre excuse imaginable for President Trump’s behavior: That Trump was still “learning on the job.”

Yes, Ryan excused the President for lying and obstruction and appointing cabinet members who Trump knew were under FBI investigation because he was just “learning” this job of president.

Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, since the appearance of Donald J. Trump, has done nothing but suck onto that presidential shark like a blood-sucking remora, following in his despicable trail and feeding on his poisonous venom in some phantom vision of an America based on Hatred and Lies and Recriminations.

In the face of multiple fact-based reports from US intelligence that the Russian intelligence agency the GRU gained access to a US software company that was contracted with programming election machines in 7 different states, and in the face of Trump and his campaign members and his own son-in-law Jared Kushner attempting to set up direct intelligence communications with the Kremlin – that would be Vladimir Putin – by bypassing US intelligence, Rep. Ryan – the second in line to the president – is STILL defending that president whose entire cabinet is acting in a cohesive manner to somehow…create a defacto power-sharing agreement with Russia?

During a public press conference with the president of Columbia President Donald Trump was asked directly by a reporter whether he asked former FBI Director James Comey to stop the Michael Flynn Russian investigation.

Trump, rather than avoiding the question or simply not replying, chose to throw out the verbal rope that just might be fashioned into the noose of his presidency.

He denied, denied, denied.

Or, as many in these United States of America have come to learn over the many months of these debasing Years of Trump: He lied, lied, lied.

Just like President Nixon did in 1973.

And Nixon, less than 1 year later, caught up in a web of lies and obfuscations and massive amounts of facts showing President Nixon was very much a criminal, he was forced to resign before being impeached.

It seems history is repeating itself.

Especially when the office of the President of the United States of America is being occupied by someone who never reads books, including history books.

At this point it’s obvious the 70 year old person sitting in the Oval Office is seriously off his rocker.

Trump, it has been revealed, asked the FBI director to drop an investigation into Russian hack Michael Flynn.

That’s called obstruction of justice.

That’s what former President Richard M. Nixon did.

Nixon resigned before he was impeached by Congress.

Can you see where this is going?

And all those hacks who voted for Donald Trump because they thought it was a GREAT IDEA to have an amateur politician running the United States Of America…your Reality TV show is about to hit you in the face.

In what is the most remarkable turn in Despot Trump’s presidency, former FBI Director James Comey has revealed that in a private dinner that he was forced to attend with Trump, the President of the United States demanded that Comey pledge personal loyalty to him, in essence, telling Comey that the rule of LAW should be disobeyed for the sake of being loyal to Donald Trump.

As the world knows, Comey did NOT pledge loyalty.

As the world knows, Trump fired Comey.

And now, it is up the the Senators and Congressmen of the United States to follow the rule of law and bring justice to bear on this Farcical, Criminal Presidency of Donald Trump.

Donald Trump, with the firing of FBI Director Comey, has sent the United States into a state of turmoil.

Not since 1973 when soon-to-be-disgraced Pres. Richard Nixon pulled his Saturday Night Massacre in his attempt to stop the investigation into Nixon’s criminal White House operations have we seen anything like this.

The investigation into Russian influence over the US election that ended with Donald Trump becoming president has been thrown into question with FBI Director Comey’s firing.

Senator’s and Congressmen do not know who will lead serious investigations into Trump campaign corruptions.

Even before being elected Donald Trump praised Russian Dictator Vladimir Putin.

Donald Trump has now reached dictatorial status in his irrational decision-making and irrational statements that whipsaw back and forth between paranoia and bravado.

The United States of America – in the eyes of the World – has devolved from the Home of Democracy into the Nation of Despotism.